The University of Waterloo, also known as "UW" or simply "Waterloo", is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The enrollment for 2004 was 22,241 undergraduate and 2,666 graduate students, with 818 full-time faculty members and 2008 staff. The University was founded in 1957.
==History and profile==
The University of Waterloo was originally conceived in 1955 as the Waterloo College Associate Faculties (WCAF), a semi-autonomous entity within Waterloo College (now Wilfrid Laurier University). Its first classes began in 1957, and two years later it became the University of Waterloo. From its relatively recent and humble origin, UW has come to the forefront of research in Canada. The University of Waterloo now attracts many bright students from across Canada and is widely recognized as one of Canada's premier universities. It is also known for its longstanding undergraduate distance education programs.
Waterloo is famous for being the groundbreaking proponent of co-operative education in Canada and currently maintains the largest such program in the world. Due to this, Waterloo has established strong ties with many major corporations in North America. In the annual Maclean's Magazine university rankings, Waterloo consistently scores within the top three positions in its category (research-intensive institutions with a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs without medical schools). Since the beginning of Maclean's reputational rankings, Waterloo has placed first overall out of all Canadian universities for 11 years in a row (1992-2002). This remarkable feat ended when Waterloo slipped to second place overall in the 2003 rankings. As of November 8th, 2004 the University of Waterloo has once again placed first overall in Macleans University rankings for the [http://www.macleans.ca/universities/article.jsp?content=20041104_162949_2152 Comprehensive] category and all Reputation categories.
The University has faculties of Applied Health Sciences, Arts,
Engineering, Environmental Studies, Independent Studies, Mathematics, and
Science as well as an on-campus school of Optometry. There are also four federated university colleges with religion affiliations on campus: St. Jerome's University (Roman Catholic), Renison College (Anglican Church of Canada), St. Paul's United College (United Church of Canada), and Conrad Grebel University College (Mennonite).
With strong programs in mathematics, science, computer science, and engineering, the University has at times been touted as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Canada. It is the home of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research and the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing. Additionally, the prowess of Waterloo's students in academic competitions such as the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest has greatly contributed to the University's reputation in the last few decades.
==Ties with Industry==
Through its large co-op program and many spin-off companies, the University maintains very close ties with the high-tech industry. The University has a very researcher centric intellectual property policy [http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infosec/Policies/policy73.htm:Cite_sources] which has created many spin-off companies that maintain a good relationship with the University.
The University came under criticism in August of 2002 when the Faculty of Engineering accepted funding from Microsoft to develop courses using Microsoft's .Net platform. [http://www.uwaterloo.ca/documents/microsoft/mou.html]
==Future plans==
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture was relocated to downtown Cambridge, Ontario in September of 2004. This will give the School of Architecture more space to develop, and could bolster the economy of the Cambridge downtown area.
The University of Waterloo Research and Technology Park is currently under construction on the University's north campus. This park is intended to house many of the high-tech industries in the area and maintain the partnership between university and private-sector innovation.
The University and the City of Kitchener, Ontario are currently in the process of constructing a health sciences campus, including a School of Pharmacy, in the central Kitchener warehouse district. An architect, Robbie/Young + Wright Architects & Hariri Pontarini Architects, has been chosen. The project will cost $34 million for the first phase.
The University of Waterloo's Department of Systems Design Engineering recently announced its intention to have a new building exclusively for the department and its students by 2007. With space already granted by the University, and support from the program's alumni, fundraising work began in 2004.
With donations by alumni and matching contributions from government, the University announced in April 2004 the founding of the Institute for Quantum computing. [http://www.iqc.ca/]
Construction will soon begin on a $70 million building to house the Institute for Quantum Computing as well as the new Nanotechnology program.
The University is currently developing an enrichment program for high school students. This program, scheduled to start in Fall 2005, has been named "Waterloo Unlimited." [http://www.unlimited.uwaterloo.ca]
==Records==
On September 16th, 2004, the University of Waterloo's Solar power team broke the Guinness Book of Records for the longest journey by a solar powered car. The solar car, called the Midnight Sun VII, broke the official record of 7,043.5 kilometre (held by Queen's University, Kingston) and the unofficial record of 13,054 km (held by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia) after undertaking a 40-day tour of Canada and the United States, travelling a total of 15,079 km. The tour took the solar car through 7 provinces and 15 states.
==Facts and figures==
*UW was the first university in the world to establish a Faculty of Mathematics.
*UW's Faculty of Mathematics is the world's largest faculty in the mathematical, statistical, and computer sciences.
*UW accounts for more than $1.6 billion of economic activity (1999) in Ontario.
*Annually, UW attracts about 400,000 visitors from outside the region.
*Annually, UW is responsible for close to a quarter of the spin-off companies identified from Canadian universities.
*The university is represented in Canadian Interuniversity Sport by the Waterloo Warriors.
==Famous alumni and faculty==
*Tim Bray - Co-Inventor of XML
*Andrej Brodnik - Mathematician
*David Cheriton - Stanford University professor, deal-maker for Google, Granite Systems, VMWare, #7 on 2005 Forbes Midas List
*George Elliot Clarke - award winning poet and writer
*Heather Dale - Celtic Singer
*Erik Demaine - computational geometry, youngest professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Tom Duff - computer scientist
*Gus German, Jim Mitchell, Richard Shirley, Robert Zamke - WATFOR Fortran Compiler
*Ann Hansen - Urban Guerilla
*Ziva Kunda - Psychologist
*Jean-Paul Lam - Economist
*Mike Lazaridis - founder of Research in Motion
*Rasmus Lerdorf - Systems Design Engineering - original author of PHP
*Parker Mitchell - Cofounder of Engineers Without Borders (Canada)
*W. T. Tutte - codebreaking (during WWII), combinatorics and graph theory
*Woldemar (Peter) Petri - renowned structural engineer
==Presidents==
*David Johnston (1999-present)
*James Downey (1993-1999)
*Douglas T. Wright (1981-1993)
*Burt Matthews (1970-1981)
*Howard Petch (1969-1970)
*Gerry Hagey (1957-1969)
==Traditions and peculiarities==
*A unique species of tree is donated by each graduating class and planted on Alumni Lane.
*The Davis Centre is designed to look like a microchip in an aerial view of the building.
*Students in the Faculty of Science receive a white lab coat upon enrollment.
*Students in the Faculty of Engineering receive a yellow hard hat upon enrollment.
*Students in the Faculty of Engineering receive the iron ring upon graduation.
*Students in the Faculty of Mathematics receive a pink tie upon enrollment, which is recognized as the unofficial symbol for math students. The story of where the pink tie originated can be found at the official [http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/navigation/About/pinktie.shtml Legend of the Pink Tie] UW page.
*Students in the Software Engineering program, run jointly by the Faculties of Engineering and Mathematics, receive both a yellow hard hat and pink tie.
*The mascot for the Faculty of Engineering is a 60" pipe wrench called The Tool, formerly called The Ridgid Tool, as it was donated by the Ridgid Tool Company.
*Student life converges upon the popular Student Life Centre, which has food, lounge, study and activities spaces and other services for students. Located in the Student Life Centre's Great Hall, the Turnkey Desk has been operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year almost continuously since the opening of the Student Life Centre (then the Campus Centre) in 1968. Turnkeys are students who know just about everything there is to know about what's going on around campus and in the community, and help students as well as provide coffee, transit tickets, and other services. Turnkeys are so-named because they are the keepers of the keys for the many rooms in the Student Life Centre, and share their name with ancient jailers.
==See also==
*Waterloo Co-operative Residence Incorporated
*University of Waterloo Federation of Students
==External links==
*[http://www.uwaterloo.ca/ University of Waterloo]
*[http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~uw_aft UW Alternative Fuels Team]
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Mike Lazaridis - founder of Research in Motion This should not be placed under Alumni and Faculty. Mike Lazaridis is neither alumni (he dropped out), or faculty (he was recently elected Chancellor). * Very technically he is; he received an honourary Doctor of Engineering degree from Waterloo in October 2000. I removed the following line from the facts section: *The Dana Porter Library is rumored to be slowly sinking due to errors made by the designers, who forgot to take into account the weight of the books I heard this too while I was a student there and believed it, but found out later on that it is an urban legend common to many universities and colleges. There is even a Snopes.com article on it: http://www.snopes.com/college/halls/sinking.asp User:TimothyPilgrim 16:02, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC) :there is a better page for stories about UW here: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoipa/history/legends . I'll maybe add it to the references links later. User:Rjeschmi 21:10, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) I dewikified James Downey's name under Presidents because it links to the wrong guy. User:Kraigus 15:16, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) Same thing with David Johnston. User:Revived 21:28, 18 Dec 2004 (EST) == NPOV in future plans section == It seems to me that some of the writing in the future plans section is not NPOV. For example, "enthusiastic support" from "loyal" alumni. I've not edited for POV before, so I'm posting this note here to see if others agree with me before I make changes. User:JesseHelmer 17:01, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I touched it up a bit. You are right, it had some POV issues. Hopefully there are none now.. plus I removed some redundancy (all donations are generous). When in doubt in the future, Wikipedia:be bold! Cheers. User:CryptoDerk 18:25, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC) == Walksafe == The paragraph describing Walksafe is unclear to me. Has the Walksafe program been ranked #1 in Canada for 11 straight years? Or has the Walksafe program contributed to Waterloo's high Maclean's Magazine rankings? (If the author of that section is trying to imply that's the case, I rather suspect that there are other larger reasons why Waterloo has done so well, although I'm sure Walksafe doesn't hurt either.) This should probably be revised by somebody who knows more about Walksafe than I do, or maybe I'll do some research myself at some point. User:Kraigus 18:28, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I think that the implication is that the Walksafe program somehow boosts Waterloo's Maclean's ranking. I'm fairly positive that's not the case. (In fact, some question the usefulness of the Walksafe program!) There are things that would be more appropriate to highlight, for sure. User:Revived 01:17, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) Uh, what ''is'' walksafe? Something to do with walking safely I guess, but that doesn't really pin it down for me. Description, please! User:Lupin 06:11, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) :[http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infopol/safe.htm The Walksafe homepage] User:Arcuras 06:54, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC) Are there any objections to me just removing the Walksafe item entirely? In an article of this depth, I don't really think it even deserves mention. It is just one of many services the university provides. What's there right now is a rather pointless summary. User:Revived 00:28, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I think it would be okay to remove it, it's nothing that other universities don't also offer. --User:Spinboy 00:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Famous People== : Can anybody verify that Beckie Scott actually graduated? I found this reference: "She is also working towards an english degree from the University of Waterloo by correspondence." -- http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:nKXux8jHpFsJ:www.cccski.com/main.asp%3Fcmd%3Ddoc%26ID%3D2430%26lan%3D0+Beckie+Scott+waterloo : Ditto for Keith Beavers, he is still listed in uwdir as a student. --User:Jdeboer 15:11, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::Do they have to have graduated? Can they not be listed if they are just a current student? --User:Spinboy 21:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::I checked out [http://www.cccski.com/main.asp?cmd=doc&ID=1066&lan=0 this site] and it makes no reference to Waterloo. --User:Spinboy 21:15, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::Try [http://www.cccski.com/main.asp?cmd=doc&ID=2430&lan=0 this site] instead "She is also working towards an english degree from the University of Waterloo by correspondence.". I would say for them to be called alumni, they have to graduate. Maybe the section title should be changed.. --User:Jdeboer 04:42, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::::Where does it say you had to have graduated to be an alumni? --User:Spinboy 05:07, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::::dictionary.com defines alumni as "A male graduate or former student of a school, college, or university." [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=alumni] --User:Spinboy 05:11, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::::The university itself seems to define an alumnus as somebody who actually completed a degree program there; I'm fairly sure you won't get very much out of Alumni Affairs without a UW degree. User:Kraigus 23:25, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::::: Kinda missing the point here. The heading is 'Famous Students', if we have to scour obscure corners of the Internet to even find a reference as to whether they exist, let alone Waterloo graduates then why are they here? At the very least, following the UofT example of 'Noted graduates and faculty' might be a better idea. I mean seriously, Miss Universe? Famous? -- User:Mucus 01:44, 11 May 2005 (UTC) ::Why don't we just side step the issue by changing the section to 'Famous Alumni, Faculty and Students'? --User:Jdeboer 22:43, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
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| (Coat of Arms of University of Waterloo) | |
| ''Motto: Concordia cum veritate (Latin: In harmony with truth)'' | |
| Chancellor | Mike Lazaridis |
| President | David Lloyd Johnston |
| School type | Public |
| Religious affiliation | Main campus: None Conrad Grebel: Mennonite Renison: Anglican Church of Canada St. Jerome's: Roman Catholic St. Paul's: United Church of Canada |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Location | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| Enrollment | 22,241 undergraduate 2,666 graduate (2004) |
| Campus surroundings | Urban, suburban |
| Campus size | 4 km² (1000 acres) |
| Sports teams | Warriors |
| Mascot | Warrior |
| Colours | Gold, black, and white |
University of Waterloo
Mike Lazaridis - founder of Research in Motion This should not be placed under Alumni and Faculty. Mike Lazaridis is neither alumni (he dropped out), or faculty (he was recently elected Chancellor). * Very technically he is; he received an honourary Doctor of Engineering degree from Waterloo in October 2000. I removed the following line from the facts section: *The Dana Porter Library is rumored to be slowly sinking due to errors made by the designers, who forgot to take into account the weight of the books I heard this too while I was a student there and believed it, but found out later on that it is an urban legend common to many universities and colleges. There is even a Snopes.com article on it: http://www.snopes.com/college/halls/sinking.asp User:TimothyPilgrim 16:02, Jul 14, 2004 (UTC) :there is a better page for stories about UW here: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infoipa/history/legends . I'll maybe add it to the references links later. User:Rjeschmi 21:10, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) I dewikified James Downey's name under Presidents because it links to the wrong guy. User:Kraigus 15:16, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC) Same thing with David Johnston. User:Revived 21:28, 18 Dec 2004 (EST) == NPOV in future plans section == It seems to me that some of the writing in the future plans section is not NPOV. For example, "enthusiastic support" from "loyal" alumni. I've not edited for POV before, so I'm posting this note here to see if others agree with me before I make changes. User:JesseHelmer 17:01, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I touched it up a bit. You are right, it had some POV issues. Hopefully there are none now.. plus I removed some redundancy (all donations are generous). When in doubt in the future, Wikipedia:be bold! Cheers. User:CryptoDerk 18:25, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC) == Walksafe == The paragraph describing Walksafe is unclear to me. Has the Walksafe program been ranked #1 in Canada for 11 straight years? Or has the Walksafe program contributed to Waterloo's high Maclean's Magazine rankings? (If the author of that section is trying to imply that's the case, I rather suspect that there are other larger reasons why Waterloo has done so well, although I'm sure Walksafe doesn't hurt either.) This should probably be revised by somebody who knows more about Walksafe than I do, or maybe I'll do some research myself at some point. User:Kraigus 18:28, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC) :I think that the implication is that the Walksafe program somehow boosts Waterloo's Maclean's ranking. I'm fairly positive that's not the case. (In fact, some question the usefulness of the Walksafe program!) There are things that would be more appropriate to highlight, for sure. User:Revived 01:17, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC) Uh, what ''is'' walksafe? Something to do with walking safely I guess, but that doesn't really pin it down for me. Description, please! User:Lupin 06:11, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC) :[http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infopol/safe.htm The Walksafe homepage] User:Arcuras 06:54, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC) Are there any objections to me just removing the Walksafe item entirely? In an article of this depth, I don't really think it even deserves mention. It is just one of many services the university provides. What's there right now is a rather pointless summary. User:Revived 00:28, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) :I think it would be okay to remove it, it's nothing that other universities don't also offer. --User:Spinboy 00:36, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) ==Famous People== : Can anybody verify that Beckie Scott actually graduated? I found this reference: "She is also working towards an english degree from the University of Waterloo by correspondence." -- http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:nKXux8jHpFsJ:www.cccski.com/main.asp%3Fcmd%3Ddoc%26ID%3D2430%26lan%3D0+Beckie+Scott+waterloo : Ditto for Keith Beavers, he is still listed in uwdir as a student. --User:Jdeboer 15:11, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::Do they have to have graduated? Can they not be listed if they are just a current student? --User:Spinboy 21:10, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::I checked out [http://www.cccski.com/main.asp?cmd=doc&ID=1066&lan=0 this site] and it makes no reference to Waterloo. --User:Spinboy 21:15, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::Try [http://www.cccski.com/main.asp?cmd=doc&ID=2430&lan=0 this site] instead "She is also working towards an english degree from the University of Waterloo by correspondence.". I would say for them to be called alumni, they have to graduate. Maybe the section title should be changed.. --User:Jdeboer 04:42, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::::Where does it say you had to have graduated to be an alumni? --User:Spinboy 05:07, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::::dictionary.com defines alumni as "A male graduate or former student of a school, college, or university." [http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=alumni] --User:Spinboy 05:11, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::::The university itself seems to define an alumnus as somebody who actually completed a degree program there; I'm fairly sure you won't get very much out of Alumni Affairs without a UW degree. User:Kraigus 23:25, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC) :::::: Kinda missing the point here. The heading is 'Famous Students', if we have to scour obscure corners of the Internet to even find a reference as to whether they exist, let alone Waterloo graduates then why are they here? At the very least, following the UofT example of 'Noted graduates and faculty' might be a better idea. I mean seriously, Miss Universe? Famous? -- User:Mucus 01:44, 11 May 2005 (UTC) ::Why don't we just side step the issue by changing the section to 'Famous Alumni, Faculty and Students'? --User:Jdeboer 22:43, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
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